Staff Photo by Cindy HepnerCrews from JL Davis House Movers deliver a home to 606 East Main Street in
Millville Thursday.

MILLVILLE— It took about seven hours but the transition from Cumberland
County Technical Education Center to 606 E. Main St. in Millville went
without incident for AHOME and their newest addition.

Donna
Turner, Executive Director of Affordable Homes Of Millville Ecumenical
Inc., said the whole process of moving the three-person home from the
school in Bridgeton, along Route 49, to it’s final resting place in
Millville went very well.

JL Davis House Moving arrived at the
school at 6:30 a.m. to secure the 26-foot wide house onto their
trailer. In an hour it was strapped in for the roughly 10-mile, hour
and a half trip.

By 1:30 p.m., four men from JL Davis had the
house in position and the foundation was ready to be laid by Dennis
Hennis, General Contractor at the site.

Turner was at the
AHOME office in Millville on Thursday, two blocks from the construction
site. This was her organization’s sixth home purchased from CCTEC
during their 10-year partnership with the school. AHOME has made a
total of 38 houses available during their history.

This house
had been completed and awaiting shipment for more than a year but still
has a few more months before it is inhabitable.

The crawlspace
foundation, plumbing, heating and electric will all need to be
installed and inspected. The front yard needs grass seeds planted and a
sidewalk installed very soon.

“It’s hard to break ground in the fall,” said Turner.

AHOME’s
goal is to make housing available and affordable to area residents.
This year, the median income for a three person family in Cumberland
County was $61,095 according to figures from the New Jersey Council on
Affordable Housing. If a family earned between that total and $48,876
they were eligible to buy the Millville house.

AHOME purchased the house from CCTEC for $55,727, transportation cost $17,500 and site work will cost them another $45,000.

It
will be on the market by the end of the year for $90,000. The
difference in what AHOME spent and what they stand to gain at sale is
covered by the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency.

If you’re looking to purchase this home there are a few caveats.

The
house cannot be rented by the owner. Potential buyers must be part of a
family and the main wage earner must be currently employed for two
years.

If the owners choose to put the house up for sale
within 10 years it must be sold to someone in the same median to
moderate income bracket.

Turner encouraged anyone interested to contact her or Louisa from AHOME at (856) 293-0100.